http://popdose.com/cd-review-marillion-less-is-more/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://popdose.com/cd-review-marillion-less-is-more/comment-page-1/#comment-52726 hagen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:01:40 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=30584#comment-52726 Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on <a href="http://marillion.com" rel="nofollow">marillion.com</a> and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy. Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on marillion.com and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy.

]]> http://popdose.com/cd-review-marillion-less-is-more/comment-page-1/#comment-40717 hagen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:01:40 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=30584#comment-40717 Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on <a href="http://marillion.com" rel="nofollow">marillion.com</a> and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy. Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on marillion.com and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy.

]]> http://popdose.com/cd-review-marillion-less-is-more/comment-page-1/#comment-37986 hagen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:01:40 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=30584#comment-37986 Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on <a href="http://marillion.com" rel="nofollow">marillion.com</a> and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy. Less Is More is not going to be an ending. From the videos they've been showing on marillion.com and from other interviews, this is a low-key affair, designed to be a low-key affair and nothing more. They've often said their albums are a reaction to the previous album, so this hour of acoustic revisions is their way of reacting to the 106 minutes of Happiness Is the Road. Also, I think they just wanted to have an excuse to buy a pipe organ and glockenspiel. The album is good (read: not as brilliant as that which came before), although I prefer the Piss-Up in a Brewery acoustic version of Cannibal Surf Babe to the hidden track. I appreciate the fact that they really reworked a lot of the songs, and while it does remove some of the aggressive power from a few numbers, it also gives some songs a new feel, like Quartz and Hard as Love. But I definitely wouldn't read Less Is More as a finale, since they're about to tour with it and they've made mention of songs that didn't make it on Happiness Is the Road. No need to start a panic, Friar Dunphy.

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